The German Studies Seminar presents Nadine Schwakopf, sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center 

Dr. Schwakopf studied law at the Universität Passau, Germany, and the University of Western Australia in Perth. After graduation, she worked at the European Parliament in Brussels and the Goethe Institut in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds a Masters Degree in French and Francophone Literatures from the Université de Montréal and a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Yale University. Between 2018 and 2023, she was first a College Fellow and then a Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

Currently, she is completing a book manuscript tentatively titled On Trespass and Withdrawal: The Ethics of Matter in European Experimental Poetry of the Postwar Period, in which she extensively draws on archival research conducted at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Her other interests include: law and literature; eco-poetry by contemporary women writers; women in the literary and artistic avant-gardes, especially in Dada and Surrealism; interart studies; the relation between the arts and politics; cinema of the GDR and Socialist Poland; francophone and germanophone feminist film.